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Re:Engineers who dismiss AI by rsynnott on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:02AM (#46335267)
It is, at this point, rather suspect that there are mountains of anecdata, but pretty much no high quality quantitive data (and what there is is mixed at best). Fun fact; worldwide, over 200 million people use homeopathy on a regular basis. They think it works. It doesn't work.
Re:Engineers who dismiss AI by abishek89 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @09:05AM (#46336280)
I don't suppose anything will change your mind, but here you go.

https://youtu.be/1OzxYK2-qsI a 6-12% increase in pull requests per developer per month.

"But those diffs are AI slop and rework" you will object. Oh well, I tried.

Re:Engineers who dismiss AI by tasuki on Saturday December 20, 2025 @04:30PM (#46339814)
> Fun fact; worldwide, over 200 million people use homeopathy on a regular basis. They think it works. It doesn't work.

Homeopathy works for sure. Placebo works. There are many studies confirming that.